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The Erosion of Constitutionalism via Constitutional Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Slovakia

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2023 Slovak general election resulted in an illiberal coalition keen to transform the political regime following its Hungarian neighbour's post‐2010 example. Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism. Constitutional entrepreneurship
Darina Malová, Max Steuer
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Itamar Mann, lifeboats and climate politics: An introduction

Global Constitutionalism
This introduction to the Agora outlines the issues raised by and arguments in Itamar Mann’s article, ‘From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens’, and the four commentaries thereon.
Michael Da Silva, David Owen
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Reading the story of law and embeddedness through a community lens: A Polanyi-meets-Cotterrell economic sociology of law? [PDF]

, 2011
In this article I propose that the role of law in Karl Polanyi’s concept of the “always embedded economy”1 can be enriched by the application of the “lens of community”2developed by Roger Cotterrell.3I begin with Polanyi’s suggestion that ...
Perry-Kessaris, Amanda
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating maritime law, law of the sea and human rights protection to inform climate adaptation

Global Constitutionalism
In ‘From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens’, Itamar Mann argues inter alia that survival cannibalism and the duty to rescue at sea can inform how to approach climate politics (Mann, p 1).
Ainhoa Campàs Velasco
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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The constitutional codification of academic freedom over time and space

Global Constitutionalism
This article explores the global spread of domestic codifications of academic freedom norms by mapping constitutional provisions over time and space. Drawing on the new Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset, the study evaluates several hypotheses ...
Janika Spannagel
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Global constitutionalism and legal theory: a preliminary analysis [PDF]

, 2014
El derecho supranacional presenta fenómenos de fragmentación, además de aspectos de constitucionalización. Las teorías que se ocupan del constitucionalismo global analizan los fenómenos de constitucionalización del derecho supranacional, tal como los ...
Bongiovanni, Giorgio
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The normative turn in European Union studies: legitimacy, identity and democracy [PDF]

, 2000
By raising fundamental questions about the methods and ultimate goals of European integration, Maastricht forced supporters and opponents alike to confront the legitimacy both of the Union and - as has become apparent with the crisis of the Santer ...
Bellamy, R., Castiglione, D.
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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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